| 摘要 |
<p>A franking machine is disclosed comprising a carriage (11) manually movable along a bed (15) and a print drum (25) carried by the carriage (11) to make rolling engagement with a mail item supported on the bed. A toothed rack (33) extends along the length of the bed and gearing (34, 35, 37, 42) on the carriage (11) meshes with the rack (33) to drive the print drum (25) and an impression roller (27) carried by the carriage. The gearing is arranged such that as the carriage is moved in a forward direction along the bed, a mail item gripped between the print drum (25) and the impression roller (27) is fed along the bed (15) in the reverse direction so that the length of traverse of the carriage, and the length of the bed, is less than the length of the franking impression to be printed. <IMAGE></p> |
